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ABSTRACT

The claim is for a trading card game toy that consists of a plurality of cards for creating new trading card games in which each said card is personalized. In order to personalize each said card, the format of the front side of each said card is blank or mostly blank with variations of templates with guidelines for drawing, writing, in or around, thereof, including coloring, painting, stamping, stickers, and all other forms considered to be art techniques. A matte finish on the front of the card will make the surface amenable to the direct application of art. The back side or opposite side of each card will contain the same printed logo such that the backs will all look the same. A protective plastic or a type of lamination will cover the back of said cards to add support to the card and increase the longevity of its use. Additional embodiments of the invention shown and described may be made without departing from the true spirit of the invention. The claims are therefore intended to cover any such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.

CROSSED-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

-   U.S. Pat. No. 6,601,851, Sakamoto et al.-   U.S. Pat. No. 2,663,418, Grunwald-   U.S. Pat. No. 4,244,582, Raees et al.-   U.S. Pat. No. 4,817,528, Baker-   U.S. Pat. No. 6,045,131, Adams et al.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to trading card game toys. More specifically,this invention relates to the making of personalized trading cards forinventing one's own trading card games.

DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART

Most trading game cards are made from paper with numbers, emblems,photographs, or illustrations printed on them by the card maker, forexample, Pokemon cards, U.S. Pat. No. 6,601,851, Sakamoto et al. Withthese types of trading cards and other card games, the producerestablishes the lettering, numbering, or characters prior to purchase.These products leave no specific or convenient place to write or drawones own ideas, thus leaving little or no room for ones own personalcreativity, either with respect to the characters in the game or therules of the game. Most of these trading card games are also printed onpaper with a slick hard surface. Sometimes they have a wax coating. Thistype of surface does not easily receive pencil, pen, or crayon marks.Therefore, providing a card format and card medium in which the playercan create his or her own deck of personalized trading cards with his orher own rules for a personalized trading card game is the problem thisinvention is addressing. Other patents for personalizing a set ofplaying cards (not trading cards) are concerned with repeating apersonalized piece of artwork on the back of a deck of standard playingcards. U.S. Pat. No. 2,663,418, Grunwald, and related U.S. Pat. Nos.4,244,582, Raees et at., and 4,817,528, Baker, specify a process forcreating personalized playing cards by attaching a repeated personalizedpattern on to the back of a card deck. These patents are restricted tomaking identical backs for playing card decks where the fronts of thecards are the standard four suits with thirteen cards in each suit, forcard games such as poker, go-fish, etc. Grunwald specifically states incolumn 2 on lines 37-44, “Thus, when this procedure is completed, as toall the cards of the deck, a deck is finally had all the different cardsof which have identical backs, as is usual and necessary so that thesuits and values of the different cards cannot be detected merely fromlooking at the card backs, yet each of said cards is personalizedaccording to the invention.” In addition, U.S. Pat. No. 6,045,131, Adamset al., provides a specific card game, truth or dare, with a format andsurface for writing questions and answers. These inventions do notaddress the problem of creating a set of completely new cards where eachcard is uniquely individualized for use in a new, personalized tradingcard game with one's own rules and one's own characters, emblems,numbers, and/or text. Nor do these inventions address the problem ofmaking each individual card a personalized trading card, by providing asurface for drawing, coloring or painting directly on to the surface ofsaid cards.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Therefore, the invention is made to allow players the convenience tocreate a plurality of trading cards where each card is individualized.This invention provides a plurality of cards with one side having amatte finished surface made from card stock or print paper or watercolorpaper for drawing, coloring, stenciling, stickers, or applying any typeof art mediums. The invention contains a plurality of cards with blankor template faces. For instance, the template faces having guidelinesfor writing legibly and providing a specific area to draw, paint, orplace ones own letters, numbers, emblems, or characters of interest tocreate one's own game with one's own characters or emblems and rules.

The exemplary embodiment is to provide a trading card game toy where onecan create ones own card or trading card game.

A further feature of exemplary embodiments is to provide a trading cardgame toy where one can make ones own characters.

A further feature of exemplary embodiments is to provide a trading cardgame toy where one can make up ones own rules.

A further feature of the exemplary embodiments is to provide a tradingcard game toy where one can make up ones own emblems.

A further feature of the exemplary embodiments is to provide a tradingcard game toy where one can make ones own numbering system.

A further feature of the exemplary embodiments is to provide a tradingcard game toy where one can make ones own lettering or alphabet.

A further feature of exemplary embodiments is to provide a trading cardgame toy with a matte finish paper.

A further feature of exemplary embodiments is to provide a trading cardgame toy with a print paper finish.

A further feature of exemplary embodiments is to provide a plasticlamination backing to the matte finish card stock, print, or watercolorpaper giving the cards support, and thus adding to the durability of thecards.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an illustrative view of a card front containing a guidelinetemplate of a horizontal line at the top used for lettering ornumbering. A rectangle below the horizontal line for drawing or coloringin, and further horizontal lines also used for lettering or numbering.

FIG. 2 is an illustration of a blank card front to be used for drawing,coloring, numbering, lettering, or any other type of art application.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of four samples of personalized trading cards,two made on a blank card front and two on a template front.

FIG. 4 is an illustration of a card back containing a logo in the bottomright corner, with a clear coating of a plastic lamination.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

This invention is a card game toy consisting of a plurality of cardsused to form a deck of trading cards. More specifically this inventionwill allow any one to make his or her own trading card game toy throughthe act of drawing, coloring, writing, painting, stenciling, stickers,or using any other types of art mediums. Furthermore, this card game toyis made either from a matte finish card stock, drawing, print, orwatercolor paper. Regardless of the type of paper used, it will alwayshave a matte finish on one side. The front matte side of the paper willconsist of either a blank surface or a template surface. The front blanksurface will allow one to freely draw, write, color, etc. anywhere onthe card front. The printed template version of the matte finish sidewill have horizontal lines to be used for writing legibly. The printedtemplate version will also have an inset rectangle, to be used as aborder outline to give a specific place for drawing characters such aspeople, animals, super heroes, monsters, etc. On the opposite side ofthe matte finished side, the back of the card will have a logo for atrademark or other repeated pattern so that all the backs will look thesame. The back will be covered by a clear plastic lamination to give astronger more flexible lasting durability to the card.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

A preferred embodiment of the trading card game toy includes FIG. 1, isa card front made from a matte finish paper with a marked template madeup of one horizontal line at the top of the card, and a rectangle in thecenter followed by horizontal lines. Horizontal lines are to be used forwriting, lettering, numbering, or any other art medium. The establishedrectangle is to be used for a drawing inside the perimeter or border.Any art medium may be used.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the card front is made from a mattefinish paper having a blank face, to be used for drawing, writing,lettering, stickers, numbering, or any other types of art mediums. FIG.3 shows two samples of personalized trading cards made using cards withblank faces and two samples of personalized trading cards made using amarked template.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the card back is made from a mattefinish paper having a logo printed on the card and covered by a clearplastic lamination. All backs will look the same with a given logo.

1. A trading card game toy that provides a plurality of cards with aformat on which a player uniquely personalizes the front of each saidtrading card with different characters or emblems or words or numbers tocreate trading cards for use in a personalized trading card game withrules of the player's own invention.
 2. A trading card game toyaccording to claim 1, wherein the surface for personalizing said cardsis a matte finish and is either blank or marked with a template that hasguide lines. Players can thus easily draw, write, color, paint, stencil,sticker, or apply any other type of art medium to each card.
 3. Atrading card game toy according to claim 1 and 2, wherein the back(reverse) side of said cards has the same logo on each and will eitherhave a matte finish or be covered with some form of plastic orlamination.